New Doom 3 For Xbox 360 And PlayStation 3 Supports Head-Mounted Displays 
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High Scores And Egos: There's Always A Bigger Doodle Sales abound during the New Years holidays in Japan. Here’s a list of the most popular items purchased — including game hardware.
It’s time for the last of 2008′s significant awards to be handed out. This time, it’s Mod DB doing the handing out, naming what they believe to be the 100 best mods for the year.
Looks like the rumour we heard earlier today is now sadly confirmed. According to a listing on the Australian Securities and Investments Commission website, Red Ant Enterprises is now officially in the hands of receivers. ASIC lists Red Ant’s status as “UNDER EXTERNAL ADMINISTRATION and/or CONTROLLER APPOINTED”, which doesn’t sound too good at all. Quite what all this means for Capcom, Konami, Bethesda and Midway, whose titles are distributed through Red Ant, we really don’t know at this stage. We are still chasing Red Ant for comment.
The Wii’s ratio of hardcore games to casual titles is low. SEGA doesn’t see that as a bad thing, but rather, an opportunity.
Most gaming shirts are awful (though not all!). Most riffs on the classic “John Paul Ringo John” shirt are awful (though not all!). This shirt is both of those, but is so not awful.
The latest PSP firmware update, v5.03, is hitting. According to Sony, it’s a small update that improves system software stability during the use of some features.
Well, do you? We’re curious. Because Naughty Dog’s Bruce Straley thinks the Uncharted star already is, and is a little taken aback that you don’t all think the same.
We already knew that Dead Rising: Chop ‘Til You Drop is lacking in the brain-eating-walking-dead department. But it’s missing more than just zombies — some of it good, some of it very bad.
Ron Curry, head honcho of the Interactive Entertainment Association of Australia, has vowed to maintain the push for an 18+ rating to be introduced into our classification system. Speaking to Jason Hill over on his Screenplay blog this morning, Curry says the public consultation process for the proposed R rating is a “significant move in the right direction”. Also on the agenda for 2009 is an effort to reduce software piracy, including establishing a new website “that will specifically assist consumers to better understand copyright and other IP issues and how it relates to video games”.
While we don’t yet have a release date for the Gears 2 patch Chocolate Rein promised the other day, we do have a little more information, in the form of seven new achievements.
